VacationSelector

Cardiff or Vienna?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Cardiff
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Vienna
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

CardiffVienna
Beaches & swimming. Cardiff leads by 46 points.46
CardiffVienna
Score460
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km822
Coast distance2 km10,000 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 17 points.17
CardiffVienna
Score6077
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5411,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3237
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 42 points.42
CardiffVienna
Score3981
Museums within 10 km61192
Museums within 2 km of centre6110
Share of museums within 2 km %1057
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 26 points.26
CardiffVienna
Score4874
Drinking venues within 4 km5361,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3951,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7456
Nightclubs within 4 km35108
Nature & day trips. Cardiff leads by 18 points.18
CardiffVienna
Score5032
Protected land share 50 km %184
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %68100
Park area within 2 km88 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 37 points.37
CardiffVienna
Score3269
Tourist attractions within 2 km446
Park area within 2 km88 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 30 points.30
CardiffVienna
Score4575
Notable places within 2 km51287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Vienna leads by 5 points.5
CardiffVienna
Score5459
Price level global84.976.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Vienna leads by 7 points.7
CardiffVienna
Score5461
Monthly daytime high7.7 °C to 20.2 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months01
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Vienna
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Cardiff
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCardiffVienna
PalmaPMI
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 40 m
€135-192
VIE · 18 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 25 m
€170-237
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 15 m
€117-169
VIE · 18 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€85-113
1 stop
BRS · 34 km
1 h 25 m
€49-71
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 15 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
5 h 40 m
€292-307
VIE · 18 km
New DelhiDEL
8 h 40 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
CancunCUN
9 h 55 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-09, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureCardiffVienna
Official languageEnglishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation41 m151 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffVienna
City population383,5362,028,289
People per km²2,7344,890
Museums within 10 km9152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre55113
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.